# Profundulus
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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
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| image = Profundulus kreiseri, USM 39022, holotype.png
| image_caption = ''Profundulus kreiseri''
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| taxon = Profundulus
| authority = [C. L. Hubbs](/source/Carl_Leavitt_Hubbs), 1924
| type_species = Fundulus punctatus
| type_species_authority = Günther, 1866[{{Cof record|genid=7640|title=''Profundulus''|access-date=17 September 2019}}]
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'''''Profundulus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [fish](/source/fish) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Profundulidae](/source/Profundulidae) [endemic](/source/endemism) to [Mexico](/source/Mexico) and northern [Central America](/source/Central_America).[{{FishBase_genus | genus = Profundulus | month = June | year = 2016 }}] It was regarded as the only genus in the Profundulidae[{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=372 |publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}] but workers have split the genus and raised a second genus ''[Tlaloc](/source/Tlaloc_(fish))''.[{{cite journal | author1 = Morcillo, F.| author2 = Ornelas-García, C.P. | author3 = Alcaraz, L. | author4 = Matamoros, W.A. | author5 = Doadrio, I. | name-list-style = amp | year = 2015 | title = Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the Mesoamerican endemic freshwater fish family Profundulidae (Cyprinodontiformes: Actinopterygii) | journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume = 94 | issue = Part. A | pages = 242–251| doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.002 | pmid = 26364972 }}]
==Species==
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:[
* ''[Profundulus adani](/source/Profundulus_adani)'' Sara E. Dominguez-Cisneros, 2021 ][Dominguez-Cisneros, Sara E, Ernesto Velázquez-Velázquez, Caleb D. McMahan, Wilfredo A. Matamoros; A new species of killifish of the genus Profundulus (Atherinomorpha: Profundulidae) from the upper reaches of the Papaloapan River in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. 2021. Ichthyology & Herpetology. 109(4):949–957]
* ''[Profundulus balsanus](/source/Profundulus_balsanus)'' [C. G. E. Ahl](/source/Christoph_Gustav_Ernst_Ahl), 1935 (Balsas killifish) [Jamangapé O, J.A., Velázquez-Velázquez, E., Martínez-Ramirez, E., Anzueto-Calvo, M.J., Gomez, E.L., Dominguez-Cisneros, S.E., McMahan, C.D. & Matamoros, W.A. (2016): [http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4173.1.5/8567 Validity and Redescription of ''Profundulus balsanus'' Ahl, 1935 (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae).] ''Zootaxa, 4173 (1): 55–65.'']
* ''[Profundulus candalarius](/source/Profundulus_candalarius)'' Hubbs, 1924 (Headwater killifish)
* ''[Profundulus chimalapensis](/source/Profundulus_chimalapensis)'' Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Eduardo López-Segovia & Tao Hernández-Arellano, 2020[Luis Fernando Del Moral-Flores, Eduardo López-Segovia & Tao Hernández-Arellano; Profundulus chimalapensis, una nueva especie de pez ciprinodóntido (Cyprinodontiformes: Profundulidae) del Río Coatzacoalcos, México | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/40340/44229]
* ''[Profundulus guatemalensis](/source/Profundulus_guatemalensis)'' ([Günther](/source/Albert_G%C3%BCnther), 1866) (Guatemalan killifish)
* ''[Profundulus hildebrandi](/source/Profundulus_hildebrandi)'' [R. R. Miller](/source/Robert_Rush_Miller), 1950 (Chiapas killifish)
* ''[Profundulus kreiseri](/source/Profundulus_kreiseri)'' [Matamoros](/source/Wilfredo_Antonio_Matamoros_Ortega), [J. F. Schaefer](/source/Jacob_F._Schaefer), [C. L. Hernández](/source/Carmen_L._Hern%C3%A1ndez) & [Chakrabarty](/source/Prosanta_Chakrabarty), 2012 (Kreiser's killifish) [Matamoros, W.A., Schaefer, J.F., Hernández, C.L. & Chakrabarty, P. (2012): [https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3164&element_type=9 ''Profundulus kreiseri'', a new species of Profundulidae (Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes) from northwestern Honduras.] ''ZooKeys, 227: 49–62.'']
* ''[Profundulus labialis](/source/Profundulus_labialis)'' ([Günther](/source/Albert_G%C3%BCnther), 1866) (Largelip killifish)
* ''[Profundulus mixtlanensis](/source/Profundulus_mixtlanensis)'' [Ornelas-García](/source/Claudia_Patricia_Ornelas-Garc%C3%ADa), [Martínez-Ramírez](/source/Emilio_Mart%C3%ADnez-Ram%C3%ADrez) & [Doadrio](/source/Ignacio_Doadrio_Villarejo), 2015 [Ornelas-García, C.P., Martínez-Ramírez, E. & Doadrio, I. (2015): [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1870345315001359 A new species of killifish of the family Profundulidae from the highlands of the Mixteca region, Mexico.] ''Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 86 (4): 926–933.'']
* ''[Profundulus oaxacae](/source/Profundulus_oaxacae)'' ([Meek](/source/Seth_Eugene_Meek), 1902)
* ''[Profundulus portillorum](/source/Profundulus_portillorum)'' Matamoros & Schaefer, 2010
* ''[Profundulus punctatus](/source/Profundulus_punctatus)'' ([Günther](/source/Albert_G%C3%BCnther), 1866) (Oaxaca killifish)
==References==
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